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    "id": 576318,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "The other disruptive consequence of the August date is the budget-making process. Definitely, this is something that must be looked into keenly in terms of budgetary provisions in the Constitution, and to what extent, if at all we are to do elections in August, the process could be disrupted. If we look at the flipside of it in terms of elections in December, the interruptive consequences are a little lesser, apart from the big burden of the place of the IEBC. I want to remind the House that, sometimes, it is critical at this level to think of elections in 2007 and the ones in 2013. In 2007, we had new commissioners in place and in the 2013 elections; there was a kind of indecision where there was tug of war between the technical staff and commissioners. There has been this justification that some of us are trying to bring in an argument that, so long as we have the technical staff in a commission, then the commissioners cannot interfere much. That is exactly what happened in 2007 and 2013."
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